‘Draft of a letter from H.R.H. Abbas Meerza to H.E. General Yermoloff’
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Copy of a translated draft of a letter from the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], Abbas Meerza ['Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], to the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov]. The letter indicates that Abbas Meerza has again sent Futteh Allee Khan [Fath-‘Ali Khan Rashti...
‘Translation of a letter addressed by H.E. the Cayim to H.E. Count Nesselrode’
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A translation of a letter addressed by the Vizier to the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], Mirza Abul Cassim, the Cayim Mukam [Mirza Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām], to the Russian Foreign Minister, Count [Karl Robert] Nesselrode. In the letter, the Cayim Mukam indicates that according to ‘the ...
‘Translation of a letter addressed by Colonel Macdonald to Hoossein Khan, Sirdar of Erivan’
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Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Sirdar of Erivan, Hoossein Khan [Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan, Ḥusayn Qulī Khān Qājār]. In the letter, Macdonald Kinneir informs Hoossein Khan of complaints made by the Ru...
‘Translation of a letter from the Envoy to H. Excellcy the Moatumud oo Dowleh’
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Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Mirza Abdul Wahab, the Moatumud oo Dowleh [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah], of 18 December 1827. The letter concerns the payment of reparations by P...
‘Translation of a Ruckum from H.R.H. Abbas Mirza to Col. Macdonald Envoy’
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Translation of a ruckum [raqm, also known as a raqim, a letter or an order] from Abbas Mirza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. Abbas Mirza reports that he has received intelligence that the...
‘Copy of a note from the Envoy to H. Excy. Meerza Abul Hassan Khan’
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Copy of a note from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Foreign Minister of Persia] of 12 February 1828. Macdonald Kinneir acknowledges the receipt of Meerza Ab...
Enclosure in Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas of 31 Oct 1798
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A copy of the proclamation written by General Napoleon Bonaparte after capturing Alexandria, dated 13 Messidor of Year VI of the French Revolution/Muharram 1213 (1 July 1798). The proclamation declares the end of the rule of the Mamelukes in Egypt and criticises the Mameluke rulers. It denies t...
Letters between Harford Jones, Lord Elgin, the Earl of Mornington and John Malcolm
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This item contains copies of three letters: 1. A letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 17 January 1800. In response to Elgin’s letter of 21 December 1799 (found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/104 and 106), Jones...
File 2249/1915 Pt 3 ‘OIL – PERSIA & MESOPOTAMIA; ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY'S AFFAIRS; Royalties paid to Persian Govt’
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The item contains correspondence and other papers relating to: the payment of royalties due to the Persian Government from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), 1915; a dispute between the British and Persian Governments relating to British troops inside Persian territory, and damage inflicted t...
File 7251/1920 Pt 3 'Arabia: Situation and Policy; Agenda for Inter Departmental Committee Meetings'
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This part of the volume contains correspondence and other papers concerning relations between Nejd, Transjordan, Hejaz, Yemen, and the Idrisi state, as well as policy in Arabia more generally. Correspondence comes from officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, the Political Resi...
